Education Quotes

"I say there is no darkness but ignorance." "Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines" "The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance" "We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid" "Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years." "The so-called learning society can be a new weapon of cultural imperialism; but in its liberatory form, education is the indispensable basis for human development." "When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable" "Ignorance is no crime and that young people should not be blamed for their ignorance, but somehow we should get around to doing something about it" "I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." "You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child." "Books were my pass to personal freedom." "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other" "One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason" "Knowledge is power" "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks."